"tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking: 'Fuck. What have I done with my life? Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage"
"Filth (novel) Filth is a 1998 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. A sequel, ""Crime"", was published in 2008. It was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name, directed by Jon S. Baird with James McAvoy in the lead role. Bruce Robertson is a detective sergeant serving in Edinburgh's ""Lothian Constabulary"". Robertson is a Machiavellian, intensely misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in cocaine and alcohol abuse, sexually abusive relationships, compulsive gorging on junk food, and, most of all, his penchant for ""the games"" – Bruce's euphemism for the myriad foul plots he hatches directed at workmates."
"and a lucid interpretation keep it afloat."" Berardinelli calls it ""solid entertainment."" Twelfth Night (1996 film) Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night: Or What You Will) is a 1996 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring an all-star cast. Set in the late 19th century, it was filmed on location in Cornwall, including scenes shot at Padstow and at Lanhydrock House near Bodmin, with Orsino and his followers wearing uniforms that evoke the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Viola (Imogen Stubbs) and Sebastian (Steven Mackintosh) are young twins who, on Twelfth Night are performing on a"
"(born 1946) ""The Busconductor Hines"" (1984) and ""A Disaffection"" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (born 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (born 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream"
"film version of the novel were at an advanced stage in 2004. The film was set to star Robert Carlyle as Rilke with a screenplay from Andrea Gibb, and was due to be filmed on location in the West End of Glasgow, but the project failed to materialise. Carlyle did, however, contribute to an audiobook version of the novel in 2006. The Cutting Room (novel) The Cutting Room is the debut novel of Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2002 by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate. It has won several awards including the 2002 Saltire Society First Book"
"Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in 1980s Leith, Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of petty crime. These works were linked by a reaction to Thatcherism that"
"Jane Austen's most endearing character, the disastrously self-assured matchmaker Emma Woodhouse. A fine cast, speedy pacing and playful direction make this a solid contender for the Austen sweepstakes."" Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in"
"(1966), ""The Assassination Bureau"" (1968), ""The First Great Train Robbery"" (1978), ""Topsy-Turvy"" (1999), ""An Ideal Husband"" (1999), ""Shanghai Knights"" (2003), the 1956 version and 2004 version of ""Around the World in Eighty Days"", and the black-and-white film ""The Elephant Man"" (1980), based on the life of Joseph Merrick. Other British cities, such as Edinburgh, or locations in other countries, are now often used for period films instead of filming in London itself. ""From Hell"" (2001), ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (2003) and Roman Polanski's 2005 film of ""Oliver Twist"" all recreated Victorian London in Prague in the Czech Republic. Edwardian"
"Alan Warner, Laura Hird, Toni Davidson and John King before any of them had books in print. Issue 4 featured an infamous 'Ecstasy Interview' - an unedited conversation between Kevin Williamson and Irvine Welsh whilst both editor and writer were under the influence of the psychoactive drug, MDMA. In his blog of February 2008, Kevin Williamson wrote ""I pulled a stunt on Radio Scotland which satisfied the Malcolm McLaren criteria of ""establishing the name"", as related to one of the finest exploitation movies of all time: ""The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle""."" In 1996, following the success of ""Trainspotting"" by Irvine Welsh,"
"The book won the Herbert Warren Wind Book Award as the best golf book of 2007, was one of the five books that ""Sports Illustrated"" selected as the ""Books of the Year"" in 2007, and was #32 of ""the 50 best sports books ever written"" selected by ""The Telegraph"". The film opened the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival on 15 June 2016. It went into theatrical release in the U.S. and internationally beginning in the spring of 2017. In St Andrews, Scotland in 1866, 15-year-old Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden) is an avid golfer like his legendary and pioneering father, Tom"
"to the grandeur of the Royal Mile architecture, regales us with tales of execution, witchcraft, plague and torture. We meet intriguing characters from Edinburgh's colourful and eventful past - from John Knox to the Foule Clenger. Georgian Edinburgh: Tales of the New Town: (1995, 55 mins, Dir: Laurence Wareing). Edinburgh - world-renowned for its stunning beauty: the Athens of the North. Adam Lyal (deceased) continues his exploration of Edinburgh’s rich past. Guiding us through Edinburgh's Georgian New Town, he brings to life all the splendour, elegance and sophistication of a world of wonderful architecture, famous characters and intriguing stories. St."
"in Scotland with a new husband, a former classmate named Gerald (Ian Innes), of whom Pa Mooney heartily disapproves. Pa tells Diana that she is the last hope the family has to overcome the ancient curse, since she is the only member of the family who does not turn into a werewolf on the night of the full moon. Will Diana succeed? Diana is eventually revealed to have other plans, and on top of that, she has her own secret as to why she is ""different"" from the other werewolves of the Mooney family. The film was released theatrically in"
"for Canada on November 12, 2012 and was captioned as ""The Best of the Music from the Film"". This album contains tracks from the two soundtracks with additional tracks as well. This album was also distributed by Ecstasy Film Inc. Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is a 2011 Canadian dark romantic comedy film adaptation of the short story """" from the best-selling book """" by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who smuggles ecstasy from Amsterdam. Kristin Kreuk plays his love interest, Heather Thompson. Frustrated with her boring"
"Twelfth Night (1996 film) Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night: Or What You Will) is a 1996 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring an all-star cast. Set in the late 19th century, it was filmed on location in Cornwall, including scenes shot at Padstow and at Lanhydrock House near Bodmin, with Orsino and his followers wearing uniforms that evoke the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Viola (Imogen Stubbs) and Sebastian (Steven Mackintosh) are young twins who, on Twelfth Night are performing on a ship and use their likeness to tease their audiences. During their journey,"
"the Edinburgh Film Festival (where the film had its world premiere in 2004), along with many nominations across the British Independent Film Awards and the European Film Awards. The novel of the same title, ""My Summer of Love"" by Helen Cross, only served as a blueprint for the film. Whereas the novel pays a lot of attention to the social background of England in the 1980s, Pawlikowski focused on the relationship between the girls. Most of the characters in the novel were left out in the film and the character Phil was invented and added by Pawlikowski, who had previously"
"Heavy Weather (film) Heavy Weather is a television film by Douglas Livingstone based on the novel ""Heavy Weather"" by P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), set at Blandings Castle. It was made by the BBC and WGBH Boston, first screened by the BBC on Christmas Eve 1995 and shown in the United States on PBS's ""Masterpiece Theatre"" on 18 February 1996. Though abridged for a 90-minute film, ""Heavy Weather"" follows closely the novel of 1933, the fourth in the Blandings series. Many of the familiar elements of the Blandings books are present: the wish of Lord Emsworth's nephew, Ronnie Fish, to marry"
"Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is a 2011 Canadian dark romantic comedy film adaptation of the short story """" from the best-selling book """" by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who smuggles ecstasy from Amsterdam. Kristin Kreuk plays his love interest, Heather Thompson. Frustrated with her boring middle class and loveless marriage, Heather Thompson (Kristin Kreuk) seeks a change in her life. At a club, she finds just that in happily partying Lloyd Buist (Adam Sinclair), a drug user. Heather falls hard for Lloyd despite the fact"
"Scotland's Edinburgh. The film was shot in Nova Scotia. In 1975, Duncan’s, a fast-food restaurant owned by Norm Duncan in the tiny hamlet of Scotland, Pennsylvania, hosts a variety of workers. Joe “Mac” McBeth is passed over for a promotion to manager by Douglas McKenna, who has been embezzling the restaurant’s money. Three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller, inform Mac that they see a bank drive-thru style restaurant in his future as management. Mac and Pat McBeth then play informants on McKenna, and Duncan recognizes the value of Mac's efforts on behalf of the restaurant. Duncan shares with the"
"Kelman's 1994 novel How Late It Was, How Late is written largely in Glaswegian dialect from the point of view of Sammy Samuels, a 38-year-old ex-convict who wakes up blind after a drinking binge and a fight with police. The novel won the 1994 Booker Prize. The 1998 film ""My Name is Joe"" is one of the few films recorded [almost] entirely in Glasgow dialect. As a result, the film had to be given subtitles when released in the USA. Jamie Stuart, a Church of Scotland elder from the High Carntyne Church, produced ""A Glasgow Bible"" in 1997, relating some"
"Glue (novel) Glue is a 2001 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. ""Glue"" tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping ""the furious energies of working-class masculinity in the late 20th century, using a compulsive mixture of Lothians dialect, libertarian socialist theory, and an irresistible black humour."" The title refers not to solvent abuse, but the metaphorical glue holding the four friends together through changing times. The four main characters are Terry Lawson (Juice Terry), Billy Birrell"
"Scotland, PA Scotland, PA is a 2001 film directed and written by William Morrissette. It is a modernized version of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"". The film stars James LeGros, Maura Tierney, and Christopher Walken. Shakespeare's tragedy, originally set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th century Scotland, is reworked into a dark comedy set in 1975, centered on ""Duncan's Cafe"", a fast-food restaurant in the small town of Scotland, Pennsylvania. The choice of Pennsylvania is arbitrary, though it coincides with two real towns, one southwest of Harrisburg on the outskirts of Chambersburg called Scotland and one just south of Erie, called Edinboro after"
"the intelligence war which took place in Dublin. Collins was the subject of director Neil Jordan's 1996 film ""Michael Collins"", with Liam Neeson in the title role. Collins's great-grandnephew, Aengus O'Malley, played a student in a scene filmed in Marsh's Library. In 2005 Cork Opera House commissioned a musical drama about Collins. ""Michael Collins"" by Brian Flynn had a successful run in 2009 at Cork opera house and later in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. ""Infamous Assassinations"", a 2007 British documentary television series, devoted its eighth episode to the death of Collins. The 2016 miniseries, ""Rebellion"", focused on the 1916"
"(Business Birrell), Andrew Galloway (Gally), Carl Ewart (DJ N-Sign). We first meet them as small children in 1970, then as teenagers around 1980, as young men around 1990 (on holiday in Munich), and as men in their late thirties around 2000 (during the Edinburgh Festival). The novel is split into five different sections. Glue (novel) Glue is a 2001 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. ""Glue"" tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping ""the furious energies"
"Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh. Craig Marriner Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. His 2001 novel ""Stonedogs"" won a Montana New Zealand Book Award and in 2003 the film rights were sold to Australian production company Mushroom Pictures, a film based on the book is currently in production. His second novel ""Southern Style"" was published in 2006. He is currently working on a third novel about a group of backpackers trekking through Europe during the 2003 invasion of Iraq Marriner was born in Rotorua and has a ""strictly working-class background"", his father was a forestry worker"
"Disaffection"" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of"
"wrongs. Parts of the series were shot at Doune Castle, Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders and at Craigmillar Castle and Blackness Castle near Edinburgh. The series has been released with 6 VHS tapes included in the set. The series has been released on a 2 DVD set. Ivanhoe (1997 TV series) Ivanhoe was a 1997 television mini-series based on the novel ""Ivanhoe"" by Sir Walter Scott. It was a produced by the BBC and A&E Network and consisted of six 50 minute episodes. This adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel is set in 1192 AD and depicts a disinherited"
"USA and UK. Other productions are imminent in major centres on the world. Awarded honorary doctorates by Napier University, Edinburgh (2007) and by Aberdeen University (2008). Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter) Allan Shiach (born 16 September 1940), who writes under the pseudonym Allan Scott, is a Scottish screenwriter and producer, and former Scotch whisky executive. He was nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a Genie Award for his 1997 film ""Regeneration"". He has won the Edgar Award (1976) and Writers' Guild Award (1978). Allan Scott was born in Elgin, Moray, and educated at Gordonstoun School and"
"Crying Game"" (1992) – famous for its shocking twist, ""The Secret Garden"" (1993) – inspired by the walled garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and ""Shadowlands"" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"" (1996) won nine Academy Awards. BAFTA Award winning films included Danny Boyle's black comedy drama ""Trainspotting"" (1996) featuring heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his circle of friends in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy ""The Full Monty"" set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama ""Elizabeth"" (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", starring Hugh Grant in his breakthrough role, set a"
"Alan Warner Alan Warner (born 1964), a Scottish novelist, grew up in Connel, near Oban. He is the author of six novels: the acclaimed ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; ""These Demented Lands"" (1997), winner of the Encore Award; ""The Sopranos"" (1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award; ""The Man Who Walks"" (2002), an imaginative and surreal black comedy; ""The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven"" (2006), and ""The Stars in the Bright Sky"" (2010), a sequel to ""The Sopranos"". ""Morvern Callar"" has been adapted as a film, and ""The Sopranos"" is"
"an Irvine Welsh novel of the same name. The film's ensemble cast includes Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, and Imogen Poots. For his role, McAvoy won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards in December 2013. It was also announced that he would co-star with Jessica Chastain in a double-feature film project, ""The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby"". He performed the male lead in radio play adaptation of ""Neverwhere"" written by Neil Gaiman. In October 2016 McAvoy played the character Richard in the BBC Radio 4 production of Neil Gaiman's short story 'How The Marquis Got His Coat Back'."
"Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor, gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston, Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the"
"guide in modern-day Edinburgh who becomes obsessed with two characters from Edinburgh's past: Major Thomas Weir, a presbyterian who was eventually executed for incest, bestiality and witchcraft; and James Mitchell, a Covenanter who attempted to assassinate the Archbishop of St Andrews. Mitchell was tortured, imprisoned on the Bass Rock and eventually also executed. A pibroch was written by Iain Dall MacAoidh (MacKay), commemorating Neil Bhass' imprisonment and escape from the island, entitled ""The Unjust Incarceration"". The Bass Rock appears as background in the title song sequence of the 1998 Bollywood movie ""Kuch Kuch Hota Hai"". An old saying has the"
"End. It is believed that Millwall F.C was the inspiration for one team, as the clubs' fans had a long standing reputation for violence during the period which the film represents. A sequel, with the title of """" was released in August 2016. It was directed by Joel Novoa, and was written by Vincent O'Connell. I.D. (1995 film) I.D. is a 1995 British film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in the 1980s, in England, mainly London, and also shot at Millmoor and"